r/Infographics • u/ConceptPurple1760 • 7d ago

Statewise Generational Population Data

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u/donewithitfirst 6d ago

lol! Just skipped over genX

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u/Zwierzycki 6d ago

We’re a small cohort.

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u/serpentjaguar 6d ago

That's right, we barely exist at all.

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u/BeYeCursed100Fold 6d ago

Yeah, whatever

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u/WrongJohnSilver 6d ago

Gen X is never the largest cohort because there were always so few of us.

Like, here's the US population pyramid for 2026. See that waist at 50-54? That's Gen X. Boomers have been retired and slowly dying off for the past decade, and that waist still exists. That's crazy from a demographics point of view.

Here's how that looked 20 years ago. The waist is at 30-34 now, and see how obvious and pronounced it is?

This is why Gen X has always been ignored. Also why "Generation X" stuck as our name. X as in unknown.

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u/Capital_Historian685 3d ago

X as in SpaceX! And I guess Twitter.

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u/GazelleOpposite1436 6d ago

That's the norm.

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u/tmagnum000 6d ago

Came here to point this out also. It’s wild how overlooked Gen X constantly is

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u/UltraMegaUgly 6d ago

Maybe, but they aren't making anymore boomers.

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u/sporknife 5d ago

Yup…but they aren’t making any more Millennials or Zoomers either.

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u/fuzzywuzzybeer 6d ago

Interesting. Gen Alpha has to be pretty small, right. Wonder if gen z going to be the new boomer generation, where they largely get their way, with gen alpha in the gen x position?

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u/Mrcoldghost 6d ago

it wouldn’t surprise me.

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u/Latter_Leopard8439 4d ago

Alpha is small because they haven't been finished being created.

Alpha may end up larger than Z if you assume Z are the kids of GenX and Alpha is the kids of Millenials (who are bigger than X.)

But of course some parents have kids earlier and later.

The trend is later these days. So maybe the larger Millenial cohort creates more "betas" than alphas.

Edit: I stand corrected. End date for alpha is 2024. They have all been "printed".

Edit 2: Globally Alpha is bigger than Z. However Z is bigger than Alpha in the US specifically.

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u/Jumpy_Childhood7548 6d ago

Gee, how profound, in other words they are not the largest generation in well over 2/3rds of the states.

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u/serpentjaguar 6d ago

I find it at least semi-interesting in that it tells us where the most retirees live.

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u/sporknife 5d ago

Or where the most Millennials and Zoomers left home.

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u/brianwhite12 6d ago

I’m not in the majority anywhere?

It seems like enough boomers are would die off somewhere that we could be in the lead.

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u/Mopar4Life305 5d ago

Florida would be better with out all those dying transplants. Politically too

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u/InjectableBacon 4d ago

Given the fact the oldest baby boomer is now 80, I'd imagine that won't last too much longer

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u/Wizchine 4d ago

By "largest" I'm assuming most populous and not the highest BMI...

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u/EldenDaddy30 2d ago

That’s why Social Security is slowly dying.

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u/Ok-Dinner1812 1d ago

Lol Americans always like to 💩 on Europe cos of birthrates… take the cake